J. Drew Lanham Reading and Book Signing

The Jackson County Public Library and City Lights Bookstore will host an evening with J. Drew Lanham on Thursday, October 30th at 6pm. The reading will be in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library.  
J. Drew Lanham is the author of Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves,  Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, and The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. He has received a MacArthur 'Genius' Grant as well as the Dan W. Lufkin Conservation Award (National Audubon Society), the Rosa Parks and Grace Lee Boggs Outstanding Service Award (North American Association for Environmental Education), and the E. O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation (Center for Biological Diversity). He served as the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina in 2022. He is a bird watcher, poet, and Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University. He lives in Seneca, South Carolina. 
Books will be available for purchase at the program from City Lights Bookstore. This program is free and open to the public. The Jackson County Public Library is a member of the Fontana Regional Library. For more information please call the library at 828-586-2016. 
 

Location

Jackson County Public Library

310 Keener St
Sylva NC
28779

Telephone: 828-586-2016
http://fontanalib.org/sylva